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With the explanation: "It entertains me. . . . That is not enough. . . . People must tell me," Playboy William Saroyan, last year's Pulitzer Prizewinner, advertised in the newspapers for 750 people "who have never seen a Broadway play" to view his The Beautiful People, now in rehearsal, on the cuff. By...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Topper's nextdoor neighbors are a houseful of leering, peering evildoers and a pair of curvaceous blondes. One blonde (Carole Landis) has returned from China to inherit the place. The other (Joan Blondell) strings along as friend and funster, gets a knife in her back before the night is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

The plot drones on about a houseful of servants who try to rehabilitate their bankrupt master by palming off a pretty scullery maid as a debutante, hoping she will bag a millionaire. The stage swarms with snooty butlers, comic valets, tripping parlormaids, hoity-toity housekeepers, red-nosed cooks. Higher and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Last week, to the delight of tourists contemplating the usual spectacle of a Houseful of sleepy fat men, quiet Mr. Woodrum spotted a hole in Ham Fish's position, crashed through it to score standing up. He charged that 37 Republicans and one Democrat, led by Ham Fish, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Idle Hands | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

¶ When Prophet Smith's original wife, "Doubting" Emma, became suspicious of increasing recruits to a houseful of so-called foundling women, he sent her to St. Louis to buy supplies. After his murder Emma married a tavern keeper.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polygamist Epic | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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